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1. Hi, I just read the transcript and was particularly concerned about the requirement to email attachments rather than links. I send out a one page agenda for strata committee meetings that will usually have several links (to the building manager’s report, the current financial statement, quotes and inspection reports) that would overload the member’s inboxes when sent as attachments, if indeed they pass the mail server limits and quotas. More than once people haven’t received an attachment because it was too large or their mailbox was full.
   I’ve recently had to purchase more space on our mailing list host to hold the mail archives even though all documents are in a dropbox.
   Does the strata committee need to meet the requirement to send email attachments?

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2. Hi, I just read the transcript and was particularly concerned about the requirement to email attachments rather than links. I send out a one page agenda for strata committee meetings that will usually have several links (to the building manager’s report, the current financial statement, quotes and inspection reports) that would overload the member’s inboxes when sent as attachments, if indeed they pass the mail server limits and quotas. More than once people haven’t received an attachment because it was too large or their mailbox was full.
   I’ve recently had to purchase more space on our mailing list host to hold the mail archives even though all documents are in a dropbox.
   Does the strata committee need to meet the requirement to send email attachments?

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   1. Hi Colin,

      I am sending this message on behalf of Amanda Farmer.

      Due to the overwhelming demand for Amanda’s services, she is no longer able to personally respond to every comment posted on the public side of the website.

      The best way to seek Amanda’s guidance is inside the members-only QandA Forum, enjoyed by paying members of our online community. Membership starts at just $97/month with no lock-in. Your instant access is here: http://www.stratamembership.com.

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      Richelle
      YSP Team

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3. you can use http://www.ilovepdf.com to compress pdf’s for free and should be sufficient to compress most large notices

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4. Meriton Apartments Pty Limited v The Owners Strata Plan No. 72381 [2015] NSWSC 202

   Slatery J
   458. There is no issue on the evidence that Mid Rise’s EGM immediately followed the AGM. The notice of the EGM dated 21 September 2004 foreshadowed the proposed resolution to appoint Apartments under item 2, of the meeting’s business, “Appointment of Building Manager” in the following terms:
   “That according to by-law 28 the owners corporation appoint Meriton Apartments Pty Ltd as its building manager, as in the terms and conditions marked Exhibit ‘A’ tabled at the meeting, further the owners corporation affix the common seal in accordance with section 238 of Strata Schemes Management Act 1996.
   (Due to the costs associated with the copying and circulation of caretaker agreement it has not been included with the agenda. A copy of the document is available upon request at the offices of Body Corporate Serves, lower ground floor, 323 Castlereagh Street, Sydney).”

   459. Although the proposed Exhibit “A” was not attached, the notice declared it could be inspected at the offices of Body Corporate Services (“BCS”). The February 2004 Caretaker Agreement was the only signed version of the agreement at that time. It is the same version used later by the parties. No one gave evidence that they had tried to inspect the document at BCS and had been unable to do so. I infer that the document subsequently adopted by the parties was available for inspection at BCS.

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   Size and cost was the driver for it not being included.
   I don’t think Slatery is creating a precedent to just leave garden variety attachments off.
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   We do have “Luddites” so fat lot of good a link is to them.

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